Game

Blue Jackets at Penguins

Blue Jackets 4, Penguins 3 in a shootout · first star Danton Heinen (1 G, 0 A).

2025-26 regular season · Preseason. The 2026-27 regular season starts Sep 29. Data as of September 28, 2026, source NHL.

Columbus Blue Jackets 4 at Pittsburgh Penguins 3

Blue Jackets CBJ

4 FINAL/SO 3

Penguins PIT

Saturday, January 17, 2026 · 7:00 PM ET · PPG Paints Arena, Pittsburgh

Line score by period
Team	1	2	3	1OT	SO	T	SOG
Blue Jackets	1	2	0	0	1	4	26
Penguins	2	0	1	0	0	3	33

Shot chart

Every shot attempt, computed from the league's play-by-play coordinates. Blue Jackets attack left, Penguins attack right, all periods folded onto one rink. Attempts are plotted where the league recorded them, so the 2 marks in a team's own end are attempts logged from there: empty-net shots, long dumps on the net. Boxscore shots on goal: CBJ 26, PIT 33.

CBJ in red PIT in blue goal shot on goal missed blocked Blue Jackets 26 shots on goal (3 goals, 13 missed, 16 blocked) attacking left; Penguins 33 shots on goal (3 goals, 22 missed, 24 blocked) attacking right.

Shots by period

Shots on goal, goals and attempts by period
Period	CBJ SOG	CBJ G	CBJ ATT	PIT SOG	PIT G	PIT ATT
1st	4	1	14	10	2	26
2nd	13	2	22	8	0	14
3rd	7	0	16	9	1	29
OT	2	0	3	6	0	10
Total	26	3	55	33	3	79

Shots by situation

Shots on goal and goals by strength of the shooting team
Situation	CBJ SOG	CBJ G	PIT SOG	PIT G
Even strength	22	3	29	3
Power play	1	0	4	0
Short-handed	3	0	0	0

Attempt share by period

Penguins took 59.0% of the shot attempts, and 55.2% of the 96 attempts taken at 5-on-5. An attempt is a goal, a shot on goal, a miss or a blocked shot; CF% is the share of them belonging to the Penguins and FF% their share of the ones that were not blocked, so the Blue Jackets hold the remainder. All situations unless the 5-on-5 figure is named. All 32 teams

Attempt share by period, all situations, Blue Jackets at Penguins
Period	PIT CF%	PIT FF%
1st	65.0	73.1
2nd	38.9	33.3
3rd	64.4	66.7
OT	76.9	72.7
Game	59.0	58.5

Team totals only: per-player on-ice numbers need shift data, which this source does not publish.

Scoring summary

1st period

02:42 Zachary Aston-Reese (1) Zach Werenski (34), Brendan Gaunce (4) · wrist 1–0
09:59 Connor Clifton (1) Tommy Novak (16) · snap 1–1
17:52 Rickard Rakell (7) Sidney Crosby (27) · snap 1–2

2nd period

07:32 Kirill Marchenko (18) Unassisted · wrist 2–2
17:38 Danton Heinen (2) Erik Gudbranson (1), Egor Zamula (2) · tip-in 3–2

3rd period

18:59 Sidney Crosby (26) Kris Letang (22), Evgeni Malkin (25) · tip-in 3–3

Shootout

00:00 Charlie Coyle Unassisted · wrist 4–3

Three stars

Danton Heinen CBJ · L #43 · 1 G, 0 A
Sidney Crosby PIT · C #87 · 1 G, 1 A
Elvis Merzlikins CBJ · G #90 · 0 GA, .909 SV%

Penalties

Penalties
Period	Time	Team	Player	Infraction	Min	Drawn by
1st	06:14	CBJ	Zachary Aston-Reese	high sticking	2	Kris Letang
2nd	02:03	CBJ	Ivan Provorov	interference	2	Ben Kindel
2nd	08:43	CBJ	Zach Werenski	slashing	2	Parker Wotherspoon
2nd	08:43	PIT	Parker Wotherspoon	slashing	2	Zach Werenski
2nd	14:15	PIT	Blake Lizotte	high sticking	2	Boone Jenner
2nd	19:21	PIT	Brett Kulak	hooking	2	Boone Jenner
3rd	12:11	CBJ	Adam Fantilli	holding	2	Ben Kindel

Boxscore

Columbus Blue Jackets

Blue Jackets skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Danton Heinen #43	L	1	0	1	+1	3	1	1	0	0.0	10:33
Zachary Aston-Reese #27	L	1	0	1	+1	1	5	1	2	0.0	07:32
Kirill Marchenko #86	R	1	0	1	+1	4	0	2	0	0.0	18:38
Brendan Gaunce #16	C	0	1	1	+2	2	2	1	0	37.5	09:25
Egor Zamula #6	D	0	1	1	+1	1	0	0	0	0.0	13:40
Erik Gudbranson #44	D	0	1	1	-1	0	2	2	0	0.0	19:50
Zach Werenski #8	D	0	1	1	-1	2	0	0	2	0.0	29:18
Adam Fantilli #19	C	0	0	0	0	3	2	2	2	47.1	20:46
Boone Jenner #38	C	0	0	0	-2	0	2	1	0	100.0	21:17
Charlie Coyle #3	C	0	0	0	-2	2	2	0	0	35.7	20:30
Cole Sillinger #4	C	0	0	0	+1	0	2	3	0	0.0	15:37
Kent Johnson #91	C	0	0	0	-1	2	0	1	0	0.0	18:31
Sean Monahan #23	C	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	40.9	17:59
Dmitri Voronkov #10	L	0	0	0	-1	0	2	0	0	0.0	08:57
Mathieu Olivier #24	R	0	0	0	0	0	4	1	0	0.0	14:40
Damon Severson #78	D	0	0	0	0	4	0	6	0	0.0	28:06
Dante Fabbro #15	D	0	0	0	+1	0	0	0	0	0.0	04:34
Ivan Provorov #9	D	0	0	0	0	2	0	2	2	0.0	27:07

Blue Jackets goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Elvis Merzlikins #90	W	33	30	3	.909	26/29	4/4	65:00

Pittsburgh Penguins

Penguins skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Sidney Crosby #87	C	1	1	2	+1	3	2	0	0	76.0	21:57
Rickard Rakell #67	R	1	0	1	+1	7	1	0	0	0.0	21:55
Connor Clifton #75	D	1	0	1	0	1	5	0	0	0.0	18:13
Evgeni Malkin #71	C	0	1	1	+1	6	0	2	0	0.0	20:06
Tommy Novak #18	C	0	1	1	0	1	0	1	0	44.4	14:24
Kris Letang #58	D	0	1	1	0	0	1	1	0	0.0	25:55
Ben Kindel #81	C	0	0	0	0	3	1	0	0	18.2	16:59
Blake Lizotte #46	C	0	0	0	-1	0	0	1	2	57.1	10:09
Connor Dewar #19	C	0	0	0	-1	0	0	0	0	0.0	11:50
Noel Acciari #55	C	0	0	0	-1	2	1	1	0	85.7	11:12
Anthony Mantha #39	R	0	0	0	+1	0	1	0	0	50.0	13:14
Bryan Rust #17	R	0	0	0	+2	4	2	1	0	0.0	21:55
Egor Chinakhov #59	R	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0.0	15:05
Justin Brazeau #16	R	0	0	0	-1	2	0	0	0	0.0	12:13
Brett Kulak #77	D	0	0	0	-1	2	0	2	2	0.0	21:54
Jack St. Ivany #3	D	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	0	0.0	16:06
Parker Wotherspoon #28	D	0	0	0	0	0	1	3	2	0.0	16:46
Ryan Shea #5	D	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0.0	19:41

Penguins goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Arturs Silovs #37	O	26	23	3	.885	19/22	1/1	64:26

SOG shots on goal · BLK blocked shots · FO% faceoff win percentage · EV / PP saves over shots by strength. Skaters sorted by points, then goals.

Source NHL (boxscore, play-by-play, game summary). Shot locations are the league's tracked coordinates; the chart and the situation tables are computed by Play-Pause Hockey. Data as of 2026-09-28.